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TV Bytes: Calimero, Pac-Man & Bubble Guppies
As international companies gear up for the MIP-TV market in France next month, we are getting bombarded with news about about global franchises. Here are today’s latest TV toon newsmakers: UK broadcaster Channel 5 has picked up the broadcast rights for the Nick Jr. preschool series Bubble Guppies. The series, [...]
‘Toby’s Travelling Circus’ Goes on World Tour
The U.K.’s Komixx Entertainment Ltd. family entertainment company has announced four more international broadcasters for its successful kids’ series Toby’s Travelling Circus, arranged by distributor Union Media. Last December, the show was the top ranking series on U.K.’s Channel 5 milkshake block for kids 4-9, having premiered in September. In [...]
MIPCOM News: Nerd Corps, DHX Media, CreaCon & Ameba
It’s only the first day of the MIPCOM content market in France, and we’re already flooded with news about new partnerships, series launches and the usual global TV sales for properties. First up, Canadian producer Nerd Corps has begun production on its first animated preschool show Kate and Mim-Mim. Created [...]
Komixx’s ‘Toby’s Travelling Circus’ Is Set for Cannes
Komixx Entertainment will take its new children’s stop-motion animated series, Toby’s Travelling Circus (52×10’) to this year’s MIPJr and MIPCOM. The show follows the exciting and adentures of Toby—a carefree seven year-old who is the World’s youngest Ringmaster —brought to life by a word-class UK production team. The show has [...]
‘Ben & Holly’ Returns to Nick Jr. UK
The second season of eOne Family’s Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom has begun its weekday run (7.15 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.) on Nick Jr. UK. Thirteen more episodes from season two will be broadcast on the channel at the end of the year. Channel 5’s Milkshake! will also air the [...]
Milkshake Brings ‘Tickety Toc’ to the Yard
Zodiak Kids’ CG-animated preschool show Tickety Toc has found a home on Channel 5’s Milkshake block in the U.K. Produced by The Foundation, part of Zodiak Kids, and Korea-based FunnyFlux Entertainment, the series will launch in the fall of 2012 during the morning preschool block. The show will also air [...]
‘City of Friends’ Gets Chummy with U.K. Auds
Norwegian kids’ entertainment producer CreaCon Group’s hit CG preschool series City of Friends has proven popular with audiences in the U.K. since debuting in the country last October on Channel 5’s Milkshake. The show has reached more than 1.3 million viewers and is currently ranked the fifth most popular Video [...]
Vodka Capital Serves ‘Jelly Jamm’ in Canada
Spanish indie production/distribution house Vodka Capital has finalized two major Free-to-Air broadcast deals with Canadian channels Télé-Québec and TVOKids (Ontario) for their CG animated preschool series Jelly Jamm. The 52 x 11 comedy celebrates creativity, music and friendship through the adventures of five wacky friends who live on the planet [...]
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